Who am I?
I am tryddle, and maybe I'll tell you my real name at some point, but for now that should suffice. I'm a student and live in Southern Germany.
I started making cyphers and codes as a kid, but it never occurred to me that you could invent entire languages. I first came across conlanging in late 2017 when I was searching YouTube for worldbuilding videos. Don't ask me how I got into worldbuilding, I guess I just really liked the concept of having your own fantasy world. So I stumbled over the YouTuber Artifexian, and I was very intrigued. After some early failed attempts over on ConWorkShop, a platform for creating conlangs, I finally settled with Old Ataman in July of 2018. I would continue to work on Old Ataman on and off for 2 years, until I abandoned it to try out new ideas and concepts.
It was at this time — in early 2018 — that I found out there were online communities dedicated to conlanging. After joining the subreddit, I joined its official discord server, the CDN (an invite link can be found in the sidebar), and after getting some help from the users on there, my conlanging journey had started. Over the years I have joined several discord servers in which I am quite active, have made many friends, and have dived deeper into the complex world of linguistics. Besides on Discord, I'm also active on the conlanging subreddit, where I host my own weekly activity, and on the LCS. I have attended the eighth Language Creation Conference in Cambridge and the first digital Language Creation Conference over on YouTube. You can check out the recordings of LCC8 and dlCC over on the Language Creation Society's YouTube channel.
Contact me
If you want to contact me you can do so in several ways:
- On Discord: tryddle#9377
- On Reddit: u/tryddle
- Via E-Mail: info [at] tryddle.conlang.org
I'm now available to complete small commissions, so feel free to contact me if you want to get in touch!
I'm fluent in English and German, but if you contact me in Spanish or French, I'll try my best to respond!
Acknowledgements
On my conlanging journey, many people have helped me to varying degrees. In this section, I will thank them in this section.
First of all, I'd like to thank Sinoël, my former conlanging mentor who helped me take my first steps in conlanging and linguistics. Thank you for teaching me so much and being an awesome person in general. Secondly, I'd like to thank the users of the CDN, as well as the Conlangs discord server for being a very nice and welcoming community which has, especially in my early days, explained me several linguistic notions. If it had not been there, I would not be the conlanger I am today. In these communities I want to thank a bunch of people: special thanks to miacomet for always giving me feedback on my write-ups. Thanks to akam chinjir for providing the baarux glossing package and helping me out with the multitude of LaTeX problems I encounter often. Thanks to the mods of the CDN and the Conlangs server for offering an awesome space for conlangers to talk about conlanging and much more. Within the CDN, special thanks to the inhabitants of the #ssmc channel for being there when you need them, and helping out with problems, whether they be conlanging-related or personal. Thanks to the moderators of r/conlangs for maintaining a very nice community over on reddit. I also thank the LCS for providing a hosting service — without that, this website would have never existed — and for organizing the Language Creation Conferences. If it wasn't for these, I would've never met fellow conlangers in real life. I thank my parents for always being there for me and supporting me in all my decisions (and also for trying to understand what I'm saying when I'm rambling about some obscure linguistic feature again). Lastly, I'd like to thank you, the reader, for taking your time to read this. I really appreciate your interest in my work; for what it's worth, conlanging is still a very niche hobby and seeing people wanting to learn more about it is awesome.
Fiat Lingua!